Louisiana

Zeta made landfall in southeast Louisiana on Wednesday as a strong Category 2 hurricane before moving into neighboring Mississippi, losing intensity on its trail of destruction. Now a tropical storm, Zeta continues to barrel northeast. Three deaths have been attributed to the storm.

At least one person has died as Hurricane Zeta pounds New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast with heavy rains and howling winds before rapidly making its way through Mississippi and Alabama with strong gusty winds, heavy rains and dangerous storm surge

Hurricane Zeta made landfall on Mexico’s eastern Yucatan Peninsula late Monday, whipping the resorts around Tulum with rain and wind.

Utility crews in Louisiana are scrambling to restore power and residents in the besieged southwest part of the state are vowing to rebuild in the wake of Hurricane Delta

Louisiana residents are once again dodging overturned cars on the roads, trudging through knee-deep water to find their homes flooded and pledging to rebuild after Hurricane Delta blew through the besieged part of the state.

Hurricane Delta is inflicting new misery on storm-battered parts of Louisiana

The hurricane is expected to make landfall near Lake Charles, La., Friday, just six weeks after Hurricane Laura pummeled the same area.

Hurricane Delta made landfall near Creole, La., as a Category 2 storm with 100 mph winds

Hurricane Delta sped up one Louisiana couple’s wedding by a few days but judging by the smiles on the bride and groom it certainly didn’t dampen the affair

Louisiana residents are confronting the menace of a new hurricane weeks after one battered parts of the state.

The powerful storm is expected to gain strength before making landfall within the next 24 hours, and areas already hard-hit by Hurricane Laura just six weeks ago.

Hurricane Delta has made landfall south of Cancun along the northeastern coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, blowing down trees and knocking out power in some of the area’s resorts

In graphic, matter-of-fact chatter picked up on his body-camera mic, a Louisiana State trooper implicated in the death of a Black man can be heard talking of beating and choking him before “all of a sudden he just went limp.”

A Louisiana state trooper has died following a single-vehicle crash hours after learning he would be fired for his role in the in-custody death of a Black man last year.

As Tropical Storm Beta nears the Texas coast, the biggest unknown is how much rainfall it could produce in areas that have already seen their share of damaging weather during a busy hurricane season

The president of Xavier University of Louisiana, Reynold Verret, is participating in a Covid-19 vaccine trial and encouraging Black students to follow suit. He explains why it is so important for people of color to be represented in the vaccine trials given that they are disproportionately dying from the virus.

Tropical Storm Beta was expected this week to bring heavy rainfall to parts of the upper Texas Gulf Coast and Louisiana, adding to the stress and worry residents and officials have already dealt with during a busy hurricane season

Hundreds of thousands of people are still without power along the Alabama coast and the Florida Panhandle in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally

Two men in their 40s died in Louisiana from what health officials said was heat-related illness while clearing debris from Hurricane Laura, bringing the number of deaths blamed on the storm in the state to 22, NBC News reports.

The death toll from Hurricane Laura has risen to 19 people across Louisiana and Texas